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<h3>STRSPN(3)           Linux Programmer's Manual           STRSPN(3)
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<h3>NAME
</h3>       strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of characters

<h3>SYNOPSIS
</h3>       #include &lt;string.h&gt;

       size_t strspn(const char *s, const char *accept);

       size_t strcspn(const char *s, const char *reject);

<h3>DESCRIPTION
</h3>       The strspn() function calculates the length of the initial
       segment of s which  consists  entirely  of  characters  in
       accept.

       The  strcspn()  function calculates the length of the ini-
       tial segment of s which consists  entirely  of  characters
       not in reject.

<h3>RETURN VALUE
</h3>       The  strspn() function returns the number of characters in
       the initial segment of s which consist only of  characters
       from accept.

       The strcspn() function returns the number of characters in
       the initial segment of s  which  are  not  in  the  string
       reject.

<h3>CONFORMING TO
</h3>       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

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<h3>SEE ALSO
</h3><p>
<a href=index.htm>index</a>, 
<a href=memchr.htm>memchr</a>, 
<a href=rindex.htm>rindex</a>, 
<a href=strchr.htm>strchr</a>, 
<a href=strpbrk.htm>strpbrk</a>, 
<a href=strsep.htm>strsep</a>, 
<a href=strstr.htm>strstr</a>, 
<a href=strtok.htm>strtok</a>, 
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